5000 GRE Vocabulary Words
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a. daily; relating to or occurring in a 24-hour period A farmer cannot neglect his diurnal tasks at any time; cows, for example, must be milked regularly. |
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diverge |
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v. vary; go in different directions from the same point The spokes of the wheel diverge from the hub. |
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divergence |
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n. difference; deviation; separation; the act of moving away in a different direction The divergence of two straight lines forms an angle. |
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doctrinaire |
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a. unable to compromise about points of doctrine; unyielding He had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change, but the repressive response of the doctrinaire hard-liners crushed his dreams. |
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doff |
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v. take off; remove; tip or remove one's hat in salutation; put aside; discard A gentleman used to doff his hat to a lady. |
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doggerel |
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n. poor verse; of crude or irregular construction Although we find occasional snatches of genuine poetry in her work, most of her writing is mere doggerel. |
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dogmatic |
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a. stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proven beliefs; inflexible, rigid We tried to discourage Doug from being so dogmatic but never could convince him that his opinions might be wrong. |
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doldrums |
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n. period of depression or unhappy listlessness; slack period; state of inactivity Once the excitement of meeting her deadline was over, she found herself in the doldrums. |
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doleful |
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a. sorrowful; filled with or expressing grief; mournful He found the bereaved family's doleful lamentations emotionally disturbing, and he left as quickly as he could. |
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domesticate |
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v. cultivate; make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans They planned to domesticate the wild horses. |
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draconian |
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a. extremely harsh; very severe, oppressive, or strict When she canceled the senior prom because some seniors had been late, we thought the draconian punishment was far too harsh for such a minor violation of the rules. |
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drawl |
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n. speaking with the slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit; lengthened, slow monotonous utterance Suppose you ask a guy where he's from, and with a deep southern drawl, he tells you he's from New York. |
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dross |
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n. waste or impure matter; worthless, commonplace, or trivial matter Many methods have been devised to separate the valuable metal from the dross. |
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ductile |
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a. easily influenced; flexible; pliable Copper is an extremely ductile material: you can stretch it into the thinnest of wires, bend it, even wind it into loops. |
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dunce |
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n. backward in book learning; child or another person dull or weak in intellect; dullard or dolt It is very impolite to call others a dunce. |
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duplicity |
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n. double-dealing; deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; acting in bad faith. When Tanya learned that Mark had been two-timing her, she was furious at his duplicity. |
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dwindle |
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v. shrink; reduce in size; become less The food in the lifeboat gradually had to dwindle away to nothing; in the end, they ate the ship's cook. |
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ebullient |
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a. showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm Amy's ebullient nature could not be repressed; she' was always bubbling over with excitement. |
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eccentricity |
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n. oddity; departure from that which is stated, regular, or usual; deviation from the center Some of his friends tried to account for his rudeness to strangers as the eccentricity of genius. |
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eclecticism |
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n. any form of art that borrows from multiple other styles I love the format, and I think it allows for a very natural eclecticism of tastes. |